Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing unnerves businessmen more than the Carter proposal to toughen the treatment of capital gains, and tax them at the same rates as salary income. Such a change would further hamper capital investment, which is crucial to economic progress and job creation. This centerpiece of the tax program is the most likely to be deferred. Yet Carter will probably attempt to raise taxes on income earned abroad by subsidiaries of U.S. corporations and on export earnings of companies that set up domestic international sales corporations. He may try to pare deductions for gasoline taxes, sales taxes and medical expenses...
...THESE PRESSURES subcommittee inertia of the kind seen this fall with intra-member feuding, blocked communication channels, and presidential de-emphasis, and you've got "no developments to speak of." If there is going to be progress, public opinion must be mobilized first. The best way to do that is to have a visible public commitment by a president...
Paul Golden, president of Local 300 of Graphic Arts International, said yesterday that although a meeting held last Friday produced "some progress," Harvard and the union still disagree over "basic financial issues...
...Yorker Letty Cottin Pogrebin recalled seeing a black delegate wearing an orange armband in support of lesbian rights, a button favoring abortion and a pro-ERA button. Originally, the delegate had worn only one insignia, that backing the ERA. Said Pogrebin: "She was the best example of the progress of those three days in Houston...
...blurring of male and female roles in a society whose standards, they believe, have substantially declined. Many of the pro-family supporters are religious fundamentalists whose views derive from a literal reading of the Bible. Others are not so dogmatic, yet they are honestly concerned that what is considered progress for women in certain respects may turn out to be destructive in others. If more women continue to join the work force, if more day care centers are set up for their children, then what happens to a family structure already weakened by the pressures of American life? Surely, they...